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Popcorn: having grown lots of a mix of pop corn varieties and selected for purple, what to do with it all. Pop it? It's not popping. Internet says it needs to be at 15%. Some grower showed corn in a jar with a small hygrometer in the jar, showing a reading in the teens. So, the hygrometers were not too dear, so i bought a pair, and the jar read about what the house read (in the 50 percent humidity). I tried dehydrating a cup of corn, 4 hours at 120°F, and returned it to the jar. After a few days, it read in the 30% region. OK: so, corn is too damp for popping. I've dried all the shucked corn for 8 hours, and the jar is reading 30% now. I assume what is happening is the very dry corn is sucking the moisture out of the air in the jar.
It is so humid here. I'd say we were in a drought, but we have finally gotten some rain. Might just be abnormally dry.
Q ... ... Quality queries: i'm not doing an hour's meditation on Sunday, but i am taking fifteen minutes most mornings to just sit with a dozing Christine. I think if i were to find some queries i could help myself get back into good meditation practice in smaller doses.
Raking and flaming: With a little rain Friday-Saturday night, i felt i could flame weed the drive after raking up pine needles. I raked up some in the garden, but covered the pile against the Saturday-Sunday night rain. I'll go out and burn some more this morning. It was very warm yesterday: today the flame might be pleasant.
Something to watch:
We were very entertained by the first episode and look forward to more. I hope it creates an understanding of what farmers go through. His financial capability does insulate him from the realities of the losses he experiences in the first episode.
Tornadoes: i saw the news within moments of waking on Saturday. My friend K and i had commented on the way it looked like tornado weather as we looked at the front and the wind patterns midday on Friday. Eye on the Storm has a good write up.
It is so humid here. I'd say we were in a drought, but we have finally gotten some rain. Might just be abnormally dry.
Q ... ... Quality queries: i'm not doing an hour's meditation on Sunday, but i am taking fifteen minutes most mornings to just sit with a dozing Christine. I think if i were to find some queries i could help myself get back into good meditation practice in smaller doses.
Raking and flaming: With a little rain Friday-Saturday night, i felt i could flame weed the drive after raking up pine needles. I raked up some in the garden, but covered the pile against the Saturday-Sunday night rain. I'll go out and burn some more this morning. It was very warm yesterday: today the flame might be pleasant.
Something to watch:
Amazon Prime's description of Clarkson’s Farm: “Jeremy Clarkson is a journalist, a broadcaster, and a man who travels the world to slide sideways in supercars while shouting,” Amazon explains. “He is not a farmer, which is unfortunate because he’s bought a 1000-acre farm in the English countryside and decided to run it himself, despite knowing nothing whatsoever about farming.”
We were very entertained by the first episode and look forward to more. I hope it creates an understanding of what farmers go through. His financial capability does insulate him from the realities of the losses he experiences in the first episode.
Tornadoes: i saw the news within moments of waking on Saturday. My friend K and i had commented on the way it looked like tornado weather as we looked at the front and the wind patterns midday on Friday. Eye on the Storm has a good write up.
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